Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
The station was originally owned by another nonprofit, and sold off to a different nonprofit a few years ago. But for $3.5 million, and evidently that was too much, and the station wasn't able to successfully compete for donations for operations as well as loan payments, as they faced KUER-FM, the NPR affiliate owned by the University of Utah. (The
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 18, 2024
And they had "parking innovation districts" for awhile, but they were idiosyncratic, not systematic, and had many restrictions. A TMD is the way to go, focusing on everything, not just parking, which is more typical. At the time, my focus was trying to create a shared parking scenario, and to invest in sustainable mobility.
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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Unkempt areas aren't places where people want to live (" Updating the post The "soft side" of commercial district revitalization ," 2006/2016). Parks, recreation centers, libraries. Usually cities have parks and libraries in the core. Not usually recreation and community centers. People don't want to live in fear.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 4, 2024
Art has shaped our perception of landscapes, parks, and other public spaces for 200+ years in the United States alone, and longer in Europe (" ‘Nature’s Nation’: How American art shaped our environmental perspectives ," Princeton University Art Museum). Gene Harris Bandshell (amphitheater), Julia Davis Park, Boise, Idaho.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 11, 2022
One of my points about master planning is that for functional areas: transportation; parks and recreation; culture; etc., One of my points about master planning is that for functional areas: transportation; parks and recreation; culture; etc., WRT solid waste and recycling it's pretty much the same.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 28, 2023
Riders can choose from 11 different locations for morning pickup — such as the Highland Park park-and-ride, or the Cottonwood Hyatt Place hotel. Recreation Transit District concept. From a transportation demand management and equity perspective, you shouldn't be required to have a car to be able to recreate.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 1, 2024
But even before that I went back and forth on it. Was it merely DC trying to copy other unusual creative infrastructure endeavors (at the same time there was an attempt to create a similar bridge in London, under then Mayor Boris Johnson, " An absurd vanity project for our age – Boris Johnson’s garden bridge ," Guardian ). I'd say yes.
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